His journey from rising star to political train wreck was detailed in a recent documentary that followed his failed 2013 bid for the mayoralty.

Abedin, now traveling with Clinton as a linchpin of her presidential campaign team, appeared in a launch video for her husband's bid, helped him fundraise and was widely seen as a top surrogate for her flawed husband after his shamefaced 2011 resignation from Congress.

The film captured not only Weiner's continuing belief in the possibility of redemption — even in the face of recurring scandals over his online flirtations with other women — but Abedin's obvious frustrations with him and the tensions in their relationship.

Weiner and Abedin married in 2010 at a lavish Long Island ceremony presided over by former President Bill Clinton.